Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: RAQUEL SILVA DE BRITO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : RAQUEL SILVA DE BRITO
DATE: 28/11/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Virtual
TITLE:

 

ADHD, Medicalization, and Neuroculture: A Possibility for Transformation in Light of Freirean Epistemology

KEY WORDS:

ADHD, Medicalization, and Neuroculture: A Possibility for Transformation in Light of Freirean Epistemology

PAGES: 50
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

The present project aims to reflect on the reality of medicalization in Basic Education schools and the impact of this phenomenon on students diagnosed with ADHD. It also seeks to discuss key Foucauldian concepts that have been definitive in the establishment of this neurocultural paradigm, and to present Freirean Epistemology as a possible means of transcending this reality in order to provide pedagogical support for teachers. The goal is to promote an educational act that goes beyond diagnostic labels and, furthermore, to foster a dialectical and liberatory process within school institutions. In the theoretical framework, we adopt the concept of neuroculture as a biopolitical device of control that employs the “cerebralization” of individual suffering and maladjustment, allowing psychiatry to name these as “disorders”—that is, as something “out of order” in the brain and/or “out of line” with the normative dictates of neoliberalism. Experiencing such interferences in the constitution of their subjectivities leads these students, when referred to health services, to become part of the large mass of medicated individuals. As a methodological approach, a qualitative design is proposed, with data collection to be conducted through semi-structured interviews with university students who were diagnosed in childhood as having ADHD. The aim is to examine whether their experiences in higher education reflect the medicalization to which they were previously subjected. The data will be analyzed through the identification of core meaning units, in order to explore the meanings attributed by the students in their narratives.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa ao Programa - 1957211 - CANDIDA BEATRIZ ALVES - nullInterna - 4316431 - MARIA CLARISSE VIEIRA
Externa à Instituição - SANDRA FRANCESCA CONTE DE ALMEIDA - UNICEUB
Presidente - 2212002 - VIVIANE NEVES LEGNANI